Sky News Arabia announces second senior appointment in a matter of days with Angelos Frangopoulos poised to join as CEO and managing editor
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New Saudi TV station feeds into modernisation drive
Branded “SBC”, the channel will broadcast exclusive content including films, talk shows and cooking programmes
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi media hub to get satellite uplink in deal with Arabsat
twofour54 partners and broadcasters across the region will have the ability to distribute content to a huge audience directly from the free zone
Anti-Piracy Coalition
Middle East crackdown sees 22 pirate TV channels shut down
A total of 2.71 billion downloads of pirated content were made in the last year, according to the MENA Broadcast Satellite Anti-Piracy Coalition
Al Jazeera
US lawmakers push for review of Al Jazeera as foreign agent
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is urged to investigate Qatar-based TV network
Al-Ikhbariya
Saudi Arabia launches new TV channel
The upgraded Al-Ikhbariya satellite TV channel will be turned into an LLC with an English-language service